Combination baby carrier and utility bag



May 27, 1952 J. w. PHILLIPS COMBINATION BABY CARRIER AND UTILITY BAG 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1 Filed June 9, 1949 Fig. 2

INVENTOR. JULMA PHiLLFPS BY WHITEHEAD a voea.

PE M WM ATTORNEYS May 27, 1952 .1. w. PHILLIPS COMBINATION BABY CARRIER AND UTILITY BAG 2 SHEETSSHEET 2 Filed June 9, 1949 INVENTOR. JULIA W. PHILLIPS BY WHITEHEAD a VOGL M MM ATTORNEYS Patented May 27, 1952 I UNITED STATES PATENT "O e i- Julia W. Phillips, Denver, C010. 7 Application June 9, 1949, Serial No. 98,105

4 Claims. 1

This invention relates to a combined baby carrier and shopping general utility bag.

An object of the invention is to provide an article which is readily adaptable for either carrying an infant in sitting or prostrate po sition or for shopping or for various other uses.

A further object is to provide an article of the class described which shall be comfortable for an infant, in either sitting or prostrate position, while being conveniently carried by its attendant, leaving the arms and hands of the attendant free.

A further object is to provide such a convenient baby carrier in such form and with such means that it may as conveniently be carried by a person, leaving the arms and hands of such person free, and used as a shopping bag or may be hung in the home as a storage and general utility bag.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel constructions. arrangements and combinations of parts as shall now be described and as defined in the appended claims and as illustrated, in preferred embodiment, in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a view illustrating the carrier suspended from the shoulders of a person in position for carrying an infant, the infant being shown as carried in sitting position.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the carrier in condition for use as a shopping bag or for carrying an infant in lying down position.

Figure 3 is a view of the carrier taken along line 33 of Fig. 2.

Figure 4 is an elevation view of the inside of the carrier as it would appear with the two side members separated. along the bottom, front and top and spread wide apart.

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken on line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

Figure 6 is a sectional view taken on line 6-6 of Fig. 2.

The device comprises a bag composed wholly of soft, pliable material such, for example, as canvas or other textiles having a vertical edge I and a horizontal bottom 2, preferably rounded upwardly at one end as at 3, and an inclined top 4 provided with suitable closures, as slide fasteners 5 and 6 preferably adapted to leave an opening I through which the head of the infant may project when in sitting position. A pad 8 is provided in the bottom of the bag for the infant to sit or lie upon, and this pad may extend upwardly on the sides as at 8a for warmth. Windows 9 are provided through which the feet and legs of the infant may protrude when the infant is in sitting position, as illustrated at Fig. 1, and these windows have suitable closures 9a to close the windows when the infant is lying down or when the bag is in use for other purposes. Windows lll are also provided to allow the infant's arms to protrude from the bag, as illustrated at Fig. 1, and suitable closures Illa are provided to close windows 10 when theiTffant is lying down or when the bag is in use for other purposes.

A shoulder strap H has its ends secured to the bag, preferably by rings 12 and I3, ring l2 being attached to the bag by any suitable means but at the intersection of vertical edge I and inclined top edge 4 and ring [3 being attached at a convenient point along edge 4, preferably near the lower edge of opening 1. A belt I4 is secured to the bag and adapted to encircle the waist of the person carrying the bag and hold the bag snugly against the body of such person.

. At Fig. 4 it will be noted that the sections of padding indicated at 80. are each shown as sewed to the bag along all their edges except at the top of each section. Thus each section forms a pocket into which various articles may be placed when the bag is used for shopping; etc. Other pockets may be provided as indicated at l5 and I6.

The bag is, by the above-described construction, well adapted for a laundry bag or clothes bag in the-home. When used for this purpose it is suspended by ring 12, attached to its peak. whereby the bag tends to hang fiat. Clothes may be inserted through the opening I which may, of course, be enlarged by means of the slide fastener 6 while leaving the balance of the top closed by slide fastener 5. a

While I have illustrated and hereinabove described many details of construction, alternatives and equivalents will occur to those skilled in the art and I do not wish my protection limited to the details illustrated or to those de scribed.

I claim:

1. A bag, for carrying a baby in either sitting or prostrate position and for use as a general utility bag, formed of two approximately righttriangular walls of cloth-like material having their right angled edges secured together and their hypotenusal edges severably joined together by zipper-type means and normally closed orifices in said walls adapted to be opened to permit projection therethrough of the limbs of a baby carried therein in sitting position.

2. In a bag as defined in claim 1, suspending means attached to said bag at its top apex and also at a point in the upper portion of said hypotenusal edge but spaced from said top apex.

3. In a bag as defined in claim 1, padding in the bottom of the bag and extending upwardly on the inner sides of the walls, said padding being formed in sections secured to the walls at the bottoms and sides of said sections but unsecured at the tops of the sections whereby to form pockets between the walls and the padding.

4. In a bag as defined in claim 1, there being two zipper-type means, onestarting at each end of the hypotenusal edge, whereby an opening between the two wall edges may be provided at selected positions along said hypotenusal edge and 4 REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the" file of this patent:

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